Glittering hold up Ouija Board foals Galileos enormous filly

Lord Derby"s champion racemare Ouija Board gave birth to her third foal, a "cracking filly" by Galileo at her owner"s Stanley House Stud in Newmarket at the weekend.

Connections are doubly pleased as it is the first filly that the seven time Group 1 winner has foaled following colts by Kingmambo and Monsun.

Her first produce, the Kingmambo, has been named Voodoo Prince and is currently a two-year in training with his dam"s former trainer Ed Dunlop.

Former glories: Kieren Fallon on Ouija Board

Ouija Board retired in 2006 after a glittering career for Dunlop that included victories in the Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf (twice), English Oaks, Irish Oaks as well as the Prince of Wales"s Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Stud manager Peter Stanley commented: "Ouija Board foaled a cracking filly by Galileo on Saturday night. She has good size and bone and she looks the spitting image of her mother.

"Hopefully she will be able to join her mother on our broodmare band in the future."

Stanley also said that Pat Cronin, who had served for 25 years as Stud Groom at Stanley House Stud, has now retired.

"Pat retired at the end of last year after 25 years with us and now lives on a house on the Stud," he said.

"We have since promoted our second man Andrew to his position and he supervised Ouija Board"s foaling at the weekend."

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Scotland proceed their Euro 2012 subordinate debate in Lithuania and finish up with toughest of tests in Spain

Scotland will begin their European Championship qualifying campaign with an away game against Lithuania on Friday, September 3, the Scottish Football Association confirmed today.

New national team boss Craig Levein and SFA chief executive Gordon Smith met with representatives from Scotland"s Group I rivals in Madrid on Friday to finalise the fixture schedule.

Levein will face four double-headers during the campaign, with the Lithuania away game followed by Liechtenstein at home on Tuesday, September 7.

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The next double-header comes against Czech Republic (away) and Spain (home) onFriday, October 8 and Tuesday, October 12, respectively.

Scotland will then face almost 11 months without a competitive matchuntil hosting the Czech Republic and Lithuania on Saturday, September3, 2011, and Tuesday, September 6, respectively.

The final double-header is away from home, at Liechtenstein on Saturday, October 8, and Spain three days later.

New Scotland manager Craig Levein admitted he would rather have played Lithuania at home first, but this appears to have been his only real bugbear over the result of the meeting.

"I am relatively pleased with the outcome," he said.

"We went in with certain objectives that we wanted to achieve and with the exception of one compromise, I consider it a good result."

Dates for Scotland"s European Championship Group I qualifying campaign:

New boss: Levein

2010

Friday, September 3: Lithuania (away)

Tuesday, September 7: Liechtenstein (home)

Friday, October 8: Czech Republic (away)

Tuesday, October 12: Spain (home)

2011

Saturday September 3: Czech Republic (home)

Tuesday, September 6: Lithuania (home)

Saturday, October 8: Liechtenstein (away)

Tuesday, October 11: Spain (away)

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Boris Berezovsky: Ive done people see Vladimir Putins dim side

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Boris Berezovsky is wearing black, but looks can be deceptive. Britains richest domestic interloper competence be vital in outcast in London, and tip of the Kremlins strike list, but he positively isn"t in anguish today.

In fact, he is triumphant and offers visitors a large potion of brandy to applaud his defame feat this week opposite RTR, a state-owned Russian radio channel that had indicted him of impasse in the attempted attempted murder of his friend, Alexander Litvinenko.

I perceived content messages and calls from Russia congratulating me on the victory. Some of the people had not been in hold for years, he told The Times at his bureau in Mayfair. Even the Russian reporters who came to talk me proposed by charity their congratulations.

But the endowment of 150,000 that RTR is contesting is of small effect to Mr Berezovsky, whose happening is estimated at 450 million.

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No, the man once regarded as the infancy absolute oligarch in Russia during the Yeltsin epoch is relishing the ultimate blow opposite the Kremlin and his physical condition rival, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The dual men have been sealed in a decade-long energy onslaught that shows no signs of abating. At stake, says Mr Berezovsky, is zero less than the predestine of Russia itself. When I came here a infancy of people, about 95 per cent, thought Putin was a great man who was cleaning the oligarchs out of Russia and creation the nation unequivocally democratic, Mr Berezovsky said.

I realised the mood had altered when I had to give a debate at the Cambridge Union recently. As I told the assembly what Putin was unequivocally like, they looked bored. I unexpected realised that they had supposed my vision. I am not the usually one who helped open the eyes of the people but I did assistance to insist how dangerous is Putins Russia. That risk became transparent to most after Mr Litvinenkos gangland slaying in November, 2006. The former KGB officer, who had fled to London with his family, died after being tainted with a hot isotope, polonium-210.

British security services resolved that the attempted attempted murder had been carried out on the orders of the Russian authorities. Relations in between the countries sojourn overshadowed by the affair. Afterwards, military pronounced that they had prevented a second gangland slaying attempt, this time opposite Mr Berezovsky.

The hazard from Moscow equates to that Mr Berezovskys movements are exceedingly limited. He can no longer revisit France or Italy, fearing Moscow would issue an extradition warrant.

He spends his time in London and Israel. His yacht, that used to be berthed on the French Riviera each summer, right away cruises the Western Isles of Scotland, that Mr Berezovsky insists is far some-more relaxing.

He says he is disturbed about what a shift of supervision in Britain competence mean. After the US President, Barack Obama, famously pulpy the reset symbol in family with the Kremlin, British officials hold the subsequent budding apportion here competence do the same.

Mr Berezovsky is not gratified at the prospect. He mourns the flitting of leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill and believes that the West should hang by the approved values. I have no disbelief that Russia will lapse to democracy, he declared. When that happens he hopes to be on the initial moody home.

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Lib Dems combat with dilemmas at awaiting of understanding with Tories

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Alan Paul has been fighting the Conservatives in Taunton, Somerset, for twenty-five years. This is a key extrinsic chair that has flipped in between the Liberal Democrats and the Tories in the past 4 elections.

There has never been a Conservative supervision in complicated times but a Tory personality here and possibilities such as Mr Paul throw for each vote.

So when, in Birmingham this weekend, the celebration personality Nick Clegg sets out his conditions for a understanding with David Cameron, or any one else, Mr Paul might begin to feel uneasy.

I would find it really tough to await a Tory government, pronounced the district and county councillor. I am not observant never co-operate with the Tories. If Cameron equates to it, he has a immature agenda. He has an bulletin about polite liberties and leisure ... if he equates to it. Its a big if.

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On visits to key bridgehead seats, Liberal Democrat activists were found struggling to enclose their excitement. After decades in the wilderness, with internal supervision triumphs on condition that the main source of sustenance, the awaiting of a hung Parliament offers the possibility of genuine power.

But at this turn it is tough to visualize how the celebration caring will swing that influence. Even in seats where the internal rivalry is Labour, Conservatives are some-more unpopular. Finding issues that members hold their personality could move to the negotiating list with Mr Cameron is a challenge.

In the new, modified, subdivision of Taunton Deane, where the Liberal Democrat MP Jeremy Browne has a notional infancy of fewer than 2,000, stalwarts snorted when Mr Camerons courting of the celebration was raised. They pounded the internal Tories for unwell to stick on them in a bloc on the precinct legislature and criticised inhabitant policies. While they insisted that they had no seductiveness in propping up Gordon Brown, they are politically some-more aligned with Labour than the Tories.

We are intellectually closer to them since the Tories ideas are formed around people creation income and keeping it, pronounced Sarah Wakefield, the subdivision celebration chairman.

Liberal Democrats have regularly pronounced that on plans for the economy they were some-more in agreement with the Prime Ministers idea in loitering the cuts than in Mr Camerons plans to cut deeper and faster.

Hazel Prior-Sankey, an additional longstanding Liberal Democrat councillor, was confident that Labour and the Liberal Democrats could work together. I dont think that we are terribly opposite from Labour. Looking at the last thirteen years, typical folk are most improved off. In Rochdale, Lancashire, the Liberal Democrat MP Paul Rowen is fortifying a notional infancy of 335 opposite Labour. He has criticised the Government over girl stagnation and the plans to close AE and maternity services at Rochdale Infirmary.

A understanding with the Conservatives? Not at any price, pronounced Brian Ashworth, a former mayor. I dont wish to be related to a celebration that is conceited and doesnt care.

Lois Barton, a celebration volunteer, was penetrating to work with people from all parties. I would similar to to listen. But others could not see Liberal Democrat issues that the Tories could embrace. I dont think that the Tories are going to be for the palace tax, pronounced Dale Mulgrew, emissary personality of the council.

While Liberal Democrat members might feel closer to Labour, and polls additionally prove that they do, Labour might find it tough to rely on the partys await to sojourn in government. Mr Mulgrew pronounced that keeping Mr Brown in energy would be unpalatable, but he could suppose a on-going agreement to disintegrate a minority Tory supervision once Mr Brown had been transposed as leader.

Yeovil, Somerset, stays a Liberal Democrat heartland. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, the former celebration leader, hold the chair for most years and David Laws, his inheritor in the subdivision and the partys Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is doubtful to lose it. The Tories once attempted to convince him to forsake and he insists that the celebration differs with Labour as most as it does with the Tories.

Sam Crabb, his agent, paused for a little time when asked if he longed for the celebration to work with the Tories. If ... if ... we had to, Im certain we could. But it would be really difficult. A very, really opposite animal.

His mental condition is of a supervision of inhabitant unity. We did it during the war, he said. Before that happens, Mr Clegg will have to find a approach to settle a celebration of unity.

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James Tredwell handed full England entrance in the second ODI opposite Bangladesh

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James Tredwell was handed his entrance as England won the toss and motionless to margin in the second one-day general opposite Bangladesh in Mirpur.

The Kent off-spinner was comparison in place of Ryan Sidebottom, who picked up a thigh aria in the initial compare and was ruled out as England try to hang up the three-match array with a diversion to spare. Tredwell, who has taken 133 one-day wickets for Kent at an normal of 32.59, toured New Zealand with the one-day patrol dual years ago but was not since a possibility to play.

England done the improved begin to the match, shortening Bangladesh to 168 for 4 after 37 overs. Tamim Iqbal, who done 125 in the initial compare of the series, roughly fell to Tim Bresnan in the initial over but was advantageous to corner far-reaching of trip for four.

Tamim looked similar to he competence be ready to unleash a small some-more low mark on England"s bowlers when he crashed Broad by the covers to reach 30. But he fell to a lax shot from the really subsequent smoothness as he toe-ended a slower Broad smoothness true to Alastair Cook.

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Aftab Ahmed was promoted to series 3 but did small to aver the promotion, lasting usually five balls prior to attempting to trounce opposite the line to Bresnan and lost his off branch in the process. Broad left the margin for diagnosis on a bruise behind whilst Swann and Luke Wright were called on to yield the shift of bowling.

Both men starting scantily as wicketkeeper Mushfiqur staid at the double to one side a sharp Imrul. The opener, who was removing a small bogged down notwithstanding circumference past 40, attempted to kick-start his innings with a big strike off Swann but done no hit as the round incited past the outward edge. At the 20-over theatre Bangladesh were 85 for two, carrying combined usually 33 runs in the prior ten.

However, Swann struck twice in discerning period to remove Imrul for 63 and Shakib Al Hasan for fourteen to leave England resolutely in control.

Bangladesh had progressing left out Mashrafe Mortaza, who is struggling to recover fitness following a ongoing knee injury, and Junaid Siddique in foster of Rubel Hossain, the seamer, and Suhrawadi Shuvo, a left-arm spinner, who creates his debut.

England: Alastair Cook (capt), Craig Kieswetter, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior, Luke Wright, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell.

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Aftab Ahmed, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Mahmudullah, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain, Abdur Razzak, Shafiul Islam, Suhrawadi Shuvo.

Umpires: Rod Tucker (AUS) and Nadir Shah (BAN)

Lloyds still disorder underneath HBOS bad debts

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Lloyds Banking Group one after another to humour the suffering of the argumentative merger of HBOS, notching up �24 billion in bad debts in 2009, but it pronounced that the design was improving.

Impairments at the UKs largest sell bank rose roughly �9 billion, or 61 per cent, in 2009, especially since of the outrageous bearing to skill companies a bequest of the lending binge orchestrated by HBOSs former head of the corporate bank, Peter Cummings.

However, the bank the initial to call the tip of the impairments cycle last summer pronounced that bad debts were improved in the second half of the year than the initial and would tumble serve from here. However, Ireland, where where one third of loans are impaired, is still a means of concern.

Shares in Lloyds, that is 41 per cent owned by taxpayers, have risen twenty per cent in the past dual weeks. Yesterday they fell 2.4p or 4 per cent to 52.5p. That is well next the 74p that the Government paid to save the bank, and the cost at that it would have to sell in sequence to do the aim of creation a distinction for taxpayers.

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Sir Win Bischoff pronounced yesterday that the bank that he chairs recognized that since the thirty million customers, it had a shortcoming to assistance the economy. Net lending sum lending reduction commercial operation who have repaid loans was certain in 2009, but Lloyds refused to give figures.

However, the Liberal Democrat Treasury orator pounded the miss of avowal as presumable spin. Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay said: That is similar to a shopkeeper counting all the records shes taken but knocking off the change.

The bank has already pronounced that it would encounter the aim set by the Government of lending �3 billion to debt commercial operation by March. However, it will not do the oath to magnify �11 billion of credit to businesses since of the high spin of patron repayments and the banks enterprise not to lend to unsure clients.

Attempting to moderate annoy between the small commercial operation community, Truett Tate, the head of Lloyds indiscriminate bank, said: I assimilate peoples frustration, but there are commercial operation who are overleveraged and flourishing since of the low seductiveness rate environment. They would similar to to steal some-more but we shouldnt lend to them.

Lloyds reported a loss of �6.3 billion, a slight alleviation on the banks 2008 loss of �6.7 billion. Excluding a �6.1 billion accounting benefit on the own debt, the loss was �12.4 billion.

In an try to absolve the preference to buy HBOS as it was teetering on the corner of fall in Sep 2008, Lloyds increasing the guess of annual synergies from the understanding from �1.5 billion to �2 billion. The bank refused to contend how most of those synergies would come from redundancies. Lloyds cut staff by 13,682 in 2009.

Analysts hold that sum pursuit cuts could reach about 40,000. The banks headcount stands at 107,144.

Lloyds, that does not have an investment bank, will compensate out about �200 million in bonuses, with normal payouts of �900. Eric Daniels pronounced progressing this week he would relinquish his �2.3 million reward to equivocate obscuring the great swell at Lloyds in the past twelve months.

Sir Win pronounced that the arch senior manager had done the right preference but warned that whilst the open mood is important, businesses could not get in to a incident where management team felt they had to spin down bonuses that had been concluded with shareholders.

Sir Win additionally pronounced banks had been as well reactive over the call of proposals for regulatory shift and indispensable to form a organisation that could set out their own proposals.

London Fashion Week kicks off with a hold of flowering plant energy Life and character

A indication presents a full of fine words origination from the Christopher Kane 2010 autumn/winter pick up during London Fashion Week. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Competition for the pretension of London Fashion Week"s hottest sheet clever today. A clever pick up by the reigning champion, 27-year-old Christopher Kane, was suited frock-for-frock by a clever contender, Canadian-born Royal College of Art connoisseur Erdem Moralioglu.

Last Sep Sarah Brown, Samantha Cameron and actress Keira Knightley were all photographed wearing Erdem clothes, vastly boosting the form of a engineer who was little-known outward conform industry circles. This season, the hum around his show rivalled that of Kane, a Saint Martins connoisseur and long-term protegé of Donatella Versace.

Kane"s pick up of black tanned hide and edging overstitched with meadow flowering plants and clear starbursts , offset androgynous touches (schoolboy-style shirt collars) with parsimonious tailoring and lashings of unclothed thigh. It was a in advance depart from last season"s Little House on the Prairie gingham see that will have buyers rubbing off their hands with glee. Kane"s capability to plan his observable scratch on to a new see gives each deteriorate a collector"s object covetability. After the show, Natalie Massenet of netaporter.com praised Kane for capturing complicated femininity. "He takes difficult looks and brings romance, or takes something flattering and creates it tough."

At Erdem, the holographic florals for that the tag is known, came in offbeat shades of teal and tobacco, cut in to tidy shifts, blouses, A-line skirts and coat-dresses. If there was a suggestion of the 1960s, it was never overwhelming: each square looked as if it would work in a complicated wardrobe.

Kane pronounced he attempted to conjure up up "the suggestion of a immature Priscilla Presley", whilst Erdem pronounced his designs were about "an superb form of survival".

My bid for Oxford communication excellence Books

Stephen Moss . . . "I"m assured I can get a dozen backers for the re-run race"

Naturally, right away Oxford ­University has at last ­announced the begin of the re-run competition to be highbrow of poetry, I have been inundated with messages asking me either I intend to go by with my settled goal of standing. Candidates have until 5 May to turn up the required dozen nominations and I"d rather hoped to stay my hand, but newspapering does not move at the freezing speed of ­poetry. So how should I plump?

I was speedy by the greeting when I published a little of my ­poetry last June. The peculiar chairman was seen plainly tears at the Guardian"s offices. Robert McCrum, in the Observer, called me the "darkest of dim horses" for the post, that I took as a compliment. Plenty of people emailed charity to commission me, and I"m assured I can get a dozen backers. Then it will all be down to the distance of the ad bill and either I can get a little technologically disposed colleagues to progress my opinion by hacking in to the university data­base. For this election, the manners have been altered to concede online choosing by casting votes over a three-week duration – surely, as the Sunday Times referred to this week, a recipe for fraud.

There are, though, obscure clouds. I was honestly harm that in Saturday"s Guardian Review, my co-worker Sarah Crown put her weight at the back of the Anglo-American producer Anne Stevenson. I do not ­intend to bob to the reproach that done Ruth Padel"s feat in the 2009 choosing a pyrrhic one. But is an American-inflected producer unequivocally right for this quintessentially English post? Stevenson is also, I note in flitting and but malice, not in the initial glow of youth. Crown additionally praised the probable candidacies of Geoffrey Hill (77), Douglas Dunn (67) and Jorie Graham (younger but uncompromisingly American), and wanting to discuss me at all.

This competence criticise obtuse men. But fright not, all those who hunger for a uninformed breeze to blow the cobwebs from British poetry. I will stand! Milton! Thou shouldst be vital at this hour. You competence even have an ­outside possibility of winning in what promises to be a swarming field.